Subjunctive conditionals : a linguistic analysis /

Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints on the satisfaction of their presuppositions by capitalizing on the occurrence of past tense morphology in both antecedent and consequent cla...

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Main Author: Ippolito, Michela, 1970- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
Series:Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 65
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints on the satisfaction of their presuppositions by capitalizing on the occurrence of past tense morphology in both antecedent and consequent clauses.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 159 pages).
ISBN:9781461943273
1461943272
1299848478
9781299848474
9780262314879
0262314878
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262019484.001.0001